Grandmama gives Lavinia a journal for her 12th birthday and urges her to learn the seven heavenly virtues to tell the difference between right and wrong. Lavinia uses qualities from family and friends to improve her character but when her embittered papa decides to send her away from home, she must rely on the strength of her values to unite two estranged families and claim her own fate.

In this sequel to Lavinia’s Window, the Pennsylvania Railroad arrives in Chaddsford to lay tracks through the heart of Lavinia's home. Progress and the promise of material gain divide the community and threaten long held traditions. Lavinia learns that nothing can be taken for granted, and sometimes citizenship comes at a terrible price.

Every young girl holds the potential for making her life into a garden paradise. The place to begin her planting is with the seeds of self-appreciation. Just as one seed yields a bounty of fruit, so does a single word spoken to the self liberate the very nature and characteristic of the word. Here now are simple words guiding the young girl to admire and respect her most treasured qualities.

Well Water Woman is a personal narrative of a Chinese American female who explores and reconstructs her journey from girlhood to womanhood, piecing information from two generations of memories to weave the life and legacy of the paternal grandmother whom she has never personally met. This short memoir explores the inner workings of spirit through the cycle of birth, life, death, and eternity.